Alex,
I agree:
1.
Yes (non-modal)
2.
Yes (run dialog persists)
3.
Separate run dialog per workflow
Paul.
James Eales wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I think I qualify as a reasonably active taverna user these days, so here are
> my votes.
>
> 1) Yes (non-modal)
> 2) Yes (run dialog persists)
> 3) Separate run dialog per workflow
>
> cheers,
> James
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2010, at 18:36, Alexandra Nenadic wrote:
>
>
>> Hi taverna-users,
>>
>> We'd like your opinion on the Run Dialog in Taverna (the one you get
>> when you try to run the Workflow and you need to specify your workflow
>> inputs). We are doing some changes to it and want to get it right, i.e.
>> do what most of you want.
>>
>> Currently, you get a dialog that is modal (i.e. stays on top of the main
>> Taverna window) and does not let you bring the main Taverna window at
>> the same time. Also, when you click the Run button on the dialog - it
>> closes it and switches to the Result perspective where you see the
>> progress of the workflow run. You can bring it up again if you click on
>> the Run button again in the main menu or in the toolbar and it will show
>> the dialog with the last used input values.
>>
>> So the questions are:
>>
>> (1) Do you want the run dialog to be non-modal so you can bring the main
>> Taverna window into focus?
>>
>> (2) Do you want the Run Dialog not to close after pressing the Run
>> button and to simply get minimised in the case it is non-modal? If it
>> gets closed then you can bring it up again from the File/Run menu of the
>> top toolbar. If it gets minimised you can always just click on it to
>> bring it up again.
>>
>> (3) Do you want a separate Run Dialog per workflow or only one RunDialog
>> for the currently run workflow? In the first case if you tried running 2
>> different workflows you'd have two different Run Dialogs minimised that
>> you can bring up. If you ran the same workflow e.g. 10 times, there
>> would still be one Run Dialog for that workflow though. So one Run
>> Dialog per workflow, but multiple runs of the same workflow would get
>> the same Run Dialog with the last input values saved. In the second
>> case, the Run Dialog will only refer to the workflow currently being run
>> and you would not be able to see the input values you used when you ran
>> other workflows.
>>
>> The suggestion we got from our in-house users is to use non-modal Run
>> Dialogs, one per workflow, and not to close them but minimise them after
>> having finished with entering inputs. This is similar to Taverna 1, but
>> you do not get a different dialog for different runs of the same
>> workflow, rather you just have one dialog per workflow that remembers
>> last used values.
>>
>>
>> OK, cast your votes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
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